In Plato's dialogues as well as in general speech there is a form for every object or quality in reality: forms of dogs, human beings, mountains, colors, courage, love, and goodness. Form …

The general structure of the solution: Plato splits up existence into two realms: the material realm and the transcendent realm of forms. Humans have access to the realm of forms through the …

One theory is that, as shown in Plato’s The Republic and other dialogues, dialectic establishes both the existence and the nature of the Forms. Another relates to the fact that the Forms are …

Plato does not take this seriously enough to dwell upon it; the difficulty would apparently be met, in part, by the conception of the individual as a meeting-place of various forms-a doctrine …

Plato’s theory of forms is perhaps a little difficult to get a handle on. In order to make his point he offered his “allegory of the cave” to indicate how sensory impressions were illusory and that …

The Theory of Forms is the metaphysical hypothesis which explains (i) the metaphysical ground of moral and rational order, and (ii) the knowledge we possess of these orders.

According to Plato, Forms exist in a different realm of reality. The world of Forms is also where our souls lived before they came into our bodies, and to which they will return after our death.